Sarah Palin's communications director Bill McAllister went on a local conservative talk station today to announce that (drumroll please).........
Sarah Palin has a Twitter account.
No, I'm not kidding. That was the big breaking news. The exclusive announcement.
Why does she have this Twitter account, you ask? Because there are so many distortions in the media, that she needs a way to counteract those things quickly. So, now you can rush right over to Twitter.com and sign up to get messages from akgovsarahpalin, where you will immediately be cleansed of all the "Lies, I tell you, LIES" reported by the evil liberal mainstream media.
McAllister said that Palin is "concerned by media coverage" like the AP story yesterday that reported she "changed her mind" about the federal stimulus money. Now, this may seem a little confusing because Palin originally said she didn't want a full third of the stimulus money coming to Alaska, and now she's taking almost all of it. She was against it before she was for it, so an uninformed person might think she had changed her mind....but wait.
According to McAllister, the reason we have all been led to believe she flip-flopped is because, and I quote,"apparently nuance and subtlety are dead."
(May we have a moment of silence for nuance and subtlety....)
Then McAllister went on to say that she has consistently said from the beginning that she's concerned about the "exploding national debt." He failed to say, of course, that the rejected stimulus money wasn't going back to the national coffers, but rather to other states who applied for it.
He also said that she was worried about "unsustainable state spending." He forgot the part about the fact that after investigating Palin's "string theory" nobody in the state legislature could find any of those 'strings' she was supposedly worried about.
There was lots of lamenting about that AP article that stated Palin "changed her mind." Perhaps they were looking for something like, "She used nuance and subtlety to alter the message from one point in time to another." Because that's totally different.
And then the big announcement came. We were all on the edge of our seats. We dared not breathe? What could it be?
"Today we've launched a Twitter service!"
Oh, boy.
"We have to be able to correct the record instantaneously," he went on to explain.
Be prepared for lots of tweeing coming from Wasilla.
Yes, it has come to this. Whining in 140 characters or less.